[Mary Meriam]

A wonderful sonnet, Ed. Congrats!

The Mole People

[Jean L. Kreiling]

I'm going to repeat what I said on FB: Kudos to Ed for his distinctively, underhandedly clever poem!

[Janice D. Soderling]

Terrific work. As per usual.

[Susan McLean]

Wow! I love it. I like the understated way in which you uncover subtexts to your premise of mole people, so that words like "enlightenment" take on ironic but very appropriate resonances.

Susan

[Siham Karami]

One of your best, Ed! And that's saying a lot! Absolutely wonderful.

[Ed Shacklee]

Thanks, all, for the kind words, which have brought a blush to my cheeks. I have a soft spot for this poem, which I've worked and reworked for years, and I was very happy to learn this morning that it had found a home at Autumn Sky.

I saw the wonderfully bad B movie of the same name when I was a little kid. They were not exactly handsome specimens and were meant to be scary, but I remember feeling sorry for them back then, and was glad when the mole people, who were kept as slaves, rebelled. They changed a lot when I reimagined them years later, but I'm sure "The Mole People" was the original inspiration. It's funny, what fancy does with one's memory!

Best,

Ed

[R. Nemo Hill]

Go, Ed, go!

Netflix has a copy of The Mole People paired up with Tarantula.
It's now on the top of my rental list!

Nemo